Exploring And Promoting Creative Archives

Monthly Archives: December 2016

We have an exciting addition to the Epsom Archive at UCA – a large selection of student zines. For the Visual Communication brief, the Graphic Design students were set the task of creating a fanzine (a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest). This brief was given a fashion biased and students could choose from the following themes:

Sustainable fashion

Music and Subculture

Art and Fashion

Superheroes

Showstudio

Trends

Concept stores

Fashion and Architecture

Feminism

Cat-walks

Taste and kitsch

Gender

Cinema

Exploitation

The fanzines are incredibly varied considering the guidelines of each having 20 pages, a 250-word limit and the use of three colours. They are a great resource for anyone researching zines.